Journal By Sil

March 2, 2000

Not feeling too healthy today...ear-ache. It has been bothering me for quite a while now. I've been taking aspergalus to boost my immune system, which seems to help. But still it grumbles and makes it hard to concentrate. [Whenever I have a pain in my head, I just can't ignore it like a pain in another part of my body.] At any rate, I had so much comp time piled up that I took off from work at 2:30, came home and took a 2 hour nap...with a small blanket wrapped around my head to keep my ear warm. It feels a lot better now...not cured, but better.

It's been spitting and sputtering snow and freezing rain all day, not enough to add up to much, just enough to be obnoxious. Sure makes me grateful to be warm and cozy inside, but dissuaded me from going after groceries this evening. So Kate and I made do with popcorn (zapped in the microwave) as I just had no ambition to fix anything more complicated. I stopped at the dairy farm right on the way home from work to get a gallon of milk. The farmwife filled a jug for me directly from the big milk pail, so I know it's fresh! But any expedition to get foodstuffs was not in the cards today.

Mud season has begun. We're up to our ankles in it. Not much fun...but, if Mud is here, Spring can't be far behind! Kate and the cats are starting to shed hair all over the place. The birch branches are getting ruddy. One of the locals saw a robin (although the hardy ones have been known to winter over, or perhaps they weren't hardy, just too fat and lazy to migrate). Someone ran over a skunk last week. So, maybe the groundhog was wrong, and spring is just around the corner.

What a quiet house tonight! The noisiest thing in the last 15 minutes was Baggins tramping through the living room. He chirruped at Eleanor on the couch, but she just gave him the "get lost" look. She's up there with Kate and Pinkerton. Lucy Light is on the dog-bed in front of the couch, and Lion is snoozing on the upholstered chair. Dolly Parton and Bluet are probably on my bed. That's their usual hangout, along with Farrah. Possum is under the couch and Sassquatch is on top of the refrigerator. Farrah's sisters, Bridget and Colleen, are in the sunroom and their mother, Blinkie, is in the linen closet. I think Blazette and Dragonette are outside...they are developing into great little hunters.

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